Ojibwa myths and tales, Origin of Birds., sentence 5
The pieces of meat did not fall back again, but became different birds, such as the blue jay, robins and others.
Who acts: pieces · What happens: not fall back, become · To what, where: different birds
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Origin of Birds.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pieces), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 pieces | det |
| 2 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fall | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 meat | case |
| 4 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pieces | nmod |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fall | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 fall | advmod |
| 7 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 fall | advmod |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 fall | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 became | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 became | cc |
| 12 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fall | conj |
| 13 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 birds | amod |
| 14 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 became | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 jay | punct |
| 16 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 20 jay | case |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 such | fixed |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 jay | det |
| 19 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 jay | amod |
| 20 | jay | jay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 birds | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 robins | punct |
| 22 | robins | robin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 jay | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 others | cc |
| 24 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 robins | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not fall back | past · do-support | the pieces of meat | again | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | become | past | the pieces of meat not said here | different birds such the blue jay robins and others | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Project Gutenberg book 76755 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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